Big boon for venues just outside of LA

I hope they do ban elephants.
Years ago a circus came to our town, and I took my young son to watch them set up.
The handlers were beating the elephants to force them to pull the ropes to set up the big top. It was horrible the way they treated those poor animals.
My son was horrified. Time to end the practice of tormenting animals in circuses.

#2´s allegation is serious and troubling. But I´m a bit cynical and question what ´beating´ an elephant means. Is it like prodding or vicious beating.

I don´t know enough to address the poster´s issue, but I do know enough that almost everything done by governments in California is imbecilic, so I´m inclinesd to think this action is imbecilic.

Let me clarify: The elephants were kicked with a heavily booted foot, and the handlers had poles with hooks on the end that were used to repeatedly hit the elephants. The beasts were forced to pull ropes and were having great difficulty pulling such a heavy load as they raised the huge tent.

Mahouts in Africa and India have been using sharp clubs to guide the elephants. Their skin is very thick and loose. I had the fun of touching one in CA one time. Very gentle, but it got restless with the music and noise and we backed off.

Glad to see LA has solved all its other problems and has time for this.

It maybe looked brutal but I can absolutely guarantee you a man can´t hurt an elephant. Prod one maybe, but not hurt one.

LA doesn´t want competition with its city council circus. That´s why it doesn´t want an animal circus in town.

I couldn´t help myself, I had to find out if the objection was the green house gases from the farts, the symbolism associated with the GOP, or something else. Circuses have utilized elephants to raise the tents for the 60 years I´ve been on the planet. Its a prime example of serendipity that one of your main draws also helps erect the tents. If I were the circus I would tell CA that they were no longer on the schedule. Tell them to go watch the governor´s project of sterilizing fruit flies in preparation for the next outbreak of fruit flies.

Interesting to note that circus elephants will soon have more rights than the unborn humans in California.
Wow.

If they went one step further and banned circus clowns, who would run the city government?

You can´t deprive inner city kids from elephants.They make them feel at home.

Once everything worthwhile has been banned we will have nothing left to live for but to bow to Obama and the Socialist state.

Ban Los Angeles.

I work behind the scenes with the circus every year when they come to town. I have never seen anyone beating an elephant.

However, when I used to spend time at a horse stable - I used to see people whip, spur and hit horses.

Maybe LA should ban stables?